Cash flows to Island

Spot on David, but you will not persuade those who continually moan about lack of jobs, infrastructure, dentists etc. etc., but who see the building of homes, sorry "affordable homes", as the very basis for a fair society. All it does is shift housing problems from the North island to here in return for what amounts to a bung, but is termed an "incentive" or "grant". The only losers are island youngsters, who can neither find work or homes.
An old ex-councillor I know is always banging on about "grant funding" as though there is some "grant funding" tree in Whitehall.
There isn't. It is our money usually given to those idiots in Brussels, who then give us back about 20p in the £1 and we are supposed to be grateful. We should cut out the middleman and fund our own kids into employment!

The New Homes Bonus on the face of it is good to receive. However the reality is it is a reward for building too many houses on the Island. We neither have the jobs (or prospect of them) or the infrastructure to sustain them. The reality will be a static, benefit fuelled culture which is and will drain Island resources. The Island is in decline and will continue to be so if short termist policies continuallyand fundamentally undermine the things that make the IOW a special place and somewhere worth visiting.

I wonder how much of this money is filtered away by those administering it, etc along the way on unnecessary jobs, cars, allowances, stationary, etc...

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